Hi Brynn,
Am 19.06.2015 um 05:19 schrieb Brynn:
Hi Maren, Yes, I understand that the intent for the wiki is more for developers. I didn't mean there should be a more prominent link for users to get to the wiki. I meant for developers, but others could use it too.
- Mmh. For devs, the link isn't too hidden, I think: https://inkscape.org/en/develop/ , fourth paragraph (but also new devs should not rely on the info in the Wiki being up to date).
I usually just type 'wik' into my browser's address line, and then autocompletion kicks in...
I don't know. Maybe developers just don't need to go fromwebsite to wiki. Maybe it's just me. But fwiw, what I'm looking for most often is the Release Notes,
- I think that for the next version we could try and get the Release Notes on the website when they are finalized. They are an important part of the documentation. This will also make it easier for our translators' team (who have access to website editing, but most don't have wiki privileges) to translate them (translating Release Notes is a difficult task by itself...).
Roadmap,
- The Roadmap is being changed by devs all the time - and users should not rely on it too much - but unfortunately, they often take it by the letter, and are then disappointed... It's good info, but I'm a bit hesitant to put it on the website. Is there a place on the website which could profit from a direct link to the Roadmap? (maybe: The Next Release, FAQ, Features?)
and I often search the wiki while trying to answer support questions from forums.
- You're quite hardy :) I've internally categorized most of the Wiki pages as 'outdated' or 'describing a plan, but not necessarily the real implementation'... Could you keep track of the kind of info you are looking up, so we can maybe find a way to include the main components on the website?
And for the latter, this is especially more for the new-in-0.91-features, because the manual hasn't been updated, and a lot of the new features are explained in the wiki. Once the manual is updated, I won't be in the wiki as much.
- Tav told me he'd take care of this soon. But it's an awful lot of work (so many new features ;) ), so it may still take a while.
(There IS a lot of user-focused stuff in the wiki! I started towork on some of it, thinking maybe it could be updated and moved to the website, like I did with the faq. But almost all of it is over my head. I did make a list of the ones that are referenced in the faq, hoping to at least get that much transferred over.
- Could you share that list?
But afaik, no one
has updated them or moved to the website.)
Kind regards, Maren
Thanks, brynn
From: "Maren Hachmann" <maren@...68...> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 12:26 PM To: inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] more prominent link to the wiki?
Am 17.06.2015 um 07:31 schrieb Brynn:
Hi Friends, This might be just me, but I find myself needing to browse from the website to the wiki fairly often. Of course I have a Favorite/Bookmark for it. But I wonder if a link to the wiki should be easier to find on the website?
Hi Brynn,
depends a bit on what the Wiki is intended for. Is it for learning?
I understood it more to be a site where the devs exchange their ideas. Most of the info there is outdated, and not regularly refreshed, or only important to developers - beside the Release notes, which live there, because we didn't carry them over to the website after they were finished (and which the devs may find easier to edit in the Wiki than on the web site - at least it allows to insert SVG as images...).
What are your use cases? Which of the info in the Wiki should be accessible more easily?
Regards, Maren
Usually I open the Learn page, and use the link near the bottomof the page. Anyway, just a thought I wanted to share. And I wonder what others might think about it. Maybe that Learn page link is enough?
All best, brynn
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